Minotaur Arcade Vol 1 (Gridrunner/Goatup)

[Whiteball]

Apparently there are a lot of people who refuse to update to Win 10 and want to stick with 7.
Some have even wiped their hard drives and re-installed win7 after upgrading previously when 10 came out.

[Whiteball]

My PC stuff is so out of date.

So - on Windows 7 (64 bit) you can start it up, select "normal" mode, then it just silently exits.

And on Windows 8 (32 bit) it exits and actually says it won't run on 32 bit.

So... I got a refund on Steam (no hard feelings) and I'm going to wait until it comes out on PS4 next year, haha.

Maybe it's a directX thing. I'm no expert but I believe win7 supports dx 9/10/11 and win10 adds support for dx 12.
Depends if anytrhing specific in dx 12 is being used maybe?

[The ghost of raids past]

The screen graphics look broken. It has a wierd spherical distortion like a badly set up CRT. Is this intentional ? Can i get a mode where its just flat ?

[Markie]

The screen graphics look broken. It has a wierd spherical distortion like a badly set up CRT. Is this intentional ? Can i get a mode where its just flat ?

I *think* I understand what you are saying, this new version of GR plays on lots of different grids, none of which are flat like in the older versions.

[(o)(o)]

I so miss my GR on my iPad - easily the best game on it and just brilliant - Would be a beast on a Switch.....

Still works on my old iPad 2 :-)

I’ve got an older iPad 3, I think it’s on iOS 7.. is there any way to get the old iOS games on there? I bought five a day, grid runner and others and miss them greatly!

[The ghost of raids past]

The screen graphics look broken. It has a wierd spherical distortion like a badly set up CRT. Is this intentional ? Can i get a mode where its just flat ?

I *think* I understand what you are saying, this new version of GR plays on lots of different grids, none of which are flat like in the older versions.

Ok if thats how its meant to be then its fine. It just looks a little strange and given the limited screen resolutions that are choosable, all of which are way under the 3440 x 1440 native screen resolution, I thought maybe it was broken.

[RiK]

Ok if thats how its meant to be then its fine. It just looks a little strange and given the limited screen resolutions that are choosable, all of which are way under the 3440 x 1440 native screen resolution, I thought maybe it was broken.

It's rather lovely in VR, which is how I tried it at Jeff's a while back...

[Markie]

The screen graphics look broken. It has a wierd spherical distortion like a badly set up CRT. Is this intentional ? Can i get a mode where its just flat ?

I *think* I understand what you are saying, this new version of GR plays on lots of different grids, none of which are flat like in the older versions.

Ok if thats how its meant to be then its fine. It just looks a little strange and given the limited screen resolutions that are choosable, all of which are way under the 3440 x 1440 native screen resolution, I thought maybe it was broken.

I'm enjoying it but looking forward to the PS version, less hassle, even on both my PC's it plays at good speed but one throws the sound away and the other is a bit hit and miss when using keys/mouse to start it, PS is just simple and in VR, should look pretty neat I reckon :-)

[Whiteball]

The screen graphics look broken. It has a wierd spherical distortion like a badly set up CRT. Is this intentional ? Can i get a mode where its just flat ?

I *think* I understand what you are saying, this new version of GR plays on lots of different grids, none of which are flat like in the older versions.

Ok if thats how its meant to be then its fine. It just looks a little strange and given the limited screen resolutions that are choosable, all of which are way under the 3440 x 1440 native screen resolution, I thought maybe it was broken.

If you are saying it isn't showing all resolutions you would expect (as your system supports them) and it's an nVidia graphics chip, update the drivers. They had some broken drivers recently that didn't allow selection of all resolutions in some titles.

And while there are different shape grids, nmone should look overly weird or 'wrong'.

[PVB]

And while there are different shape grids, nmone should look overly weird or 'wrong'.

I’m guessing they just look weird compared to the old flat grids.

Seeing this, you might think it’s wrong, rather than as intended:

[TableTopMountain]

I don't know what level it was on Grid Runner but I had about 6 lives left on Pure with about 190,000 thinking I was going to get the number 8 spot in the leaderboards if I stayed in the right calm mind... then bang some new enemies were introduced and I lost life after life. It's funny how panic sets in and you start doing stupid things. I swore like a bastard when the level kicked my arse. But at least I made it to 10 on the leaderboards

Grid Runner is pretty addictive... it's the best game Jeff has done in ages. I really wish I could experience it on my Vive but hopefully that will come later. I like the way the power up system works and keeping chains going as long as possible to build score. The bulling idea is neat as well... the first thing I do is take out enemies on the start of a level, usually getting some powers ups and keep a chain going as long as possible.

I'm using mouse control... to me it's better than a game pad for control.

[PVB]

With my laptop having the usual goat-awful touchpad, I’m using an Xbox controller and moving with the left analog stick.

Tried using the d-pad, but found an initial lag when first pressed, not found that on the left stick.

Already said “Minter, you Cunt!” a few times.

[TableTopMountain]

With my laptop having the usual goat-awful touchpad, I’m using an Xbox controller and moving with the left analog stick.

Already said “Minter, you Cunt!” a few times.

So have I

I really should give Goat Up a good try out. So far I'm happy playing Grid Runner!

[PVB]

Spotted by Hypz within the code:

MinotaurArcade.exe 0x001D4E40
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elberberries.
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy cow, who mooed.
My hovercraft is full of eels.
Chicken tikka vindialoo, three spicy poppadoms, pilau rice and a garlic naan.
THE POLAR BEAR'S PARTY OR THE MANNERLESS MUSK OX
A hospitable polar bear resolved to give a party;
His nature was gregarious, his sentiments were hearty.
He asked the Walruses and Seals that lived upon the floe;
And in a burst of friendliness, the Musky Ox also.
The Musky Ox, he lives on land, but still he likes it cold;
His fur is thick, he's never sick, I think I'll be so bold!
"O Musky Ox, O Musky Box, your neighbor, Polar Bear,
Invites you to his party; he hopes you'll come; so there!"
A lovely feast of blubber strips he set before each guest,
A puffin pie, a stuffin' pie, and boobies of the best.
They drank I don't know what they drank but they were blithe and gay,
And still the more the viands shrank, the more they had to say.
All, all except the Musky Ox! He sat beside the board;
He did not eat, he did not drink, he did not speak a word.
"Speak up! Speak up! Thou Musky Ox, Why sit so dumb and still?
The rest are merry as you please, and eat and drink their fill!"
The Musk Ox raised his musky eyes and shook his musky head;
"I don't like blubber, you ursine lubber!" he very rudely said.
"Your puffin pie, your stuffin' pie, they fill me with disgust.
Bring me, old hoss, some Iceland moss! You will, you shall, you must!"
The Bear looked at the Walruses and they looked back at him,
They rose beside the festal board, and oh, their looks were grim.
"Go seek your Iceland moss yourself, you rude unmannered beast;
It will be longer before you're asked to share a Polar feast!"
They seized upon that Musky Ox and drove him to the shore,
The bundled him, they trundled him, with loud and angry road.
Now see him wallop o'er the snow, hungry and tired and cross,
For not within a hundred miles grew any Iceland moss.
While Bear and Walruses and Seals cry "Wherefore all this fuss?
E'en let him go, old double-toe! There's all the more for us!"

Clearly the intent of this cautionary tale is to depict the poor Musky Ox as the villain of the piece, a poor graceless beast who should have had better manners than so roughly to reject his ursine host's offer of food. And yet looking at it with modern and perhaps more civilised eyes we can argue that perhaps the Polar Bear ought to have had a little more consideration for the fact that his musky companion was a vegetarian. Finding himself with food he was unable to eat, and enduring a growing sense of hostility the longer that food was not consumed, it is perhaps unsurprising that the shy and somewht socially awkward ox might blurt out a reply intended to be jocular but instead interpreted as unmannerly by his hosts. For a beast already quite unused to socialising and parties (to which he is seldom invited, perhaps on account of his muskiness) it must have been quite a traumatic experience to be thus ejected and let far from home and food and forced to wallop home alone and hungry.
SEARCHING FOR BASINGSTOKE. UNABLE TO LOCATE BASINGSTOKE.
You really ought to try the hottest curry in the entire curry house. Have a phal. You only live once.
Come rain or shine we'd always make time for curry night.
SCENETABLE EXCEEDED. BEGIN EXCEPTION PROTOCOL OVERRIDE. CONTACTING AGENCIES. DONE INFORMING ILLUMINATI DONE MJ-12 TRANSMISSION RUNNING ERROR Girrafes Cups of tea. Enthusiastic sandwiches. ATN ATN OSCR XRAY 6502 MESSAGE BEGINS PRIORITY ULTRA The alians, it seems, had been studying us for some millennia. They were particularly fascinated by, and attracted to, our cattle. This may seem a little unlikely, given their rather well-documented predilection for abducting and mutilating Earthly beasts, but so it seemed to be in their bovine-besotted alien mind-constructs. Thus when the time came to invade, their use of bioenhanced hyperbovids was perhaps reasonable fo rthem. They saw themselves as liberators, sent to free the bovine masses from the yoke of the predator-monkeys. This scenario is not unlike what happened in the Mutant Camel Wars, and if we can once more utilise the telepathic metagoat flock perhaps we can achieve a similar remote deprogramming of the enslaved cattle. If you have sat through all this, well done. I should have been in the dentists right now but instead I am sitting here as the car went a bit peculiar on the way and I deemed it prudent not to carry on, as it's rubbish weather and I didn't want to be stuck in the middle of Wales with a non functional car. It is doubly annoying as I have a knackered molar at the back I'd rather like seen to. Oh well. We hope you have enjoyed playing through the game and will keep an eye out for our future releases. Oh god, I misread the headline and thought it said "Tea with an ox can be a good thing." Anyway I doubt anyone will actually bother to decode this. $)$F3

[Chris_R]

That's an excellent find, reminds me of Jeff's old C64 era game notes.

Over in the Steam discussion area there's a user who can't get ultra-wide resolutions (start at post 7). PVB has steered them towards the support forum
https://steamcommunity.com/app/906110/d ... 091358043/
I didn't know if any filtering of resolutions went on in the code.